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Case study: improving the management of eye care programmes

Community Eye Health Journal, 2008
Nigeria is a federation of 36 administrative States, which each have a mandate to deliver health care to their population. Sightsavers International has been supporting four State ministries of health (Cross River, Kaduna, Kwara, and Sokoto) in ...
Kolawole Olumide Ogundimu
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The Accuracy of Accredited Glaucoma Optometrists in the Diagnosis and Treatment Recommendation for Glaucoma [PDF]

, 2007
Background/aims: To compare the diagnostic performance of accredited glaucoma optometrists (AGO) for both the diagnosis of, and decision to treat glaucoma with that of routine hospital eye care against a reference standard of expert opinion, i.e ...
Burr, J., Thomas, Ruth, Thomas, Ruth Elizabeth, MacLennan, Graeme Stewart, Thomas, R., Burr, Jennifer Margaret, Maclennan, G., McPherson, S., Maclennan, Graeme, McPherson, Stephen, Azuara-Blanco, Augusto, Burr, Jennifer, Azuara-Blanco, A.; id_orcid   +12 more
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Utilisation of eye care services in rural south India: the Aravind Comprehensive Eye Survey [PDF]

British Journal of Ophthalmology, 2004
To determine utilisation of eye care services in a rural population of southern India aged 40 years or older.5150 subjects aged 40 years and older selected through a random cluster sampling technique from three districts in southern India underwent detailed ocular examinations for vision impairment, blindness, and ocular morbidity.
P K, Nirmalan, J, Katz, A L, Robin, R, Krishnadas, R, Ramakrishnan, R D, Thulasiraj, J, Tielsch   +6 more
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Femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery compared with phacoemulsification: the FACT non-inferiority RCT

Health Technology Assessment, 2021
Background: Cataract surgery is one of the most common operations. Femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery (FLACS) is a technique that automates a number of operative steps. Objectives: To compare FLACS with phacoemulsification cataract surgery (PCS).
Alexander C Day, Jennifer M Burr, Kate Bennett, Rachael Hunter, Catey Bunce, Caroline J Doré, Mayank A Nanavaty, Kamaljit S Balaggan, Mark R Wilkins   +8 more
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The clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of second-eye cataract surgery: a systematic review and economic evaluation [PDF]

, 2014
Background: Elective cataract surgery is the most commonly performed surgical procedure in the NHS. In bilateral cataracts, the eye with greatest vision impairment from cataract is operated on first.
Jonathan Shepherd, Frampton, Geoff, Geoff Frampton, Petra Harris, Harris, Petra, Andrew Lotery, Keith Cooper, Cooper, Keith, Shepherd, Jonathan, Lotery, Andrew J.   +9 more
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Delivery of Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells Improves Tear Production in a Mouse Model of Sjögren’s Syndrome

Stem Cells International, 2017
The purpose of the present study was to test the potential of mouse bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (BD-MSCs) in improving tear production in a mouse model of Sjögren’s syndrome dry eye and to investigate the underlying mechanisms involved ...
Hema S. Aluri, Mahta Samizadeh, Maria C. Edman, Dillon R. Hawley, Helene L. Armaos, Srikanth R. Janga, Zhen Meng, Victor G. Sendra, Pedram Hamrah, Claire L. Kublin, Sarah F. Hamm-Alvarez, Driss Zoukhri   +11 more
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Integrating eye health into policy: Evidence for health systems strengthening in KwaZulu-Natal

African Vision and Eye Health, 2020
Background: Available evidence is that eye health care receives less attention compared to other allied health professions in public health services across South Africa, yet vision impairment is known to have significant social and economic consequences.
Lungile M. Buthelezi, Diane van Staden
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Health systems analysis of eye care services in Zambia: evaluating progress towards VISION 2020 goals. [PDF]

, 2014
BACKGROUND: VISION 2020 is a global initiative launched in 1999 to eliminate avoidable blindness by 2020. The objective of this study was to undertake a situation analysis of the Zambian eye health system and assess VISION 2020 process indicators on ...
Bozzani, FM, Griffiths, Ulla Kou, Elena Schmidt, Schmidt, E, Bozzani, Fiammetta Maria, Schmidt, Elena, Ulla Kou Griffiths, Griffiths, UK, Fiammetta Maria Bozzani, Blanchet, K, Blanchet, Karl, Karl Blanchet   +11 more
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Educating Older African Americans about the Preventive Importance of Routine Comprehensive Eye Care [PDF]

Journal of the National Medical Association, 2008
Older African Americans have higher rates of vision impairment and lower utilization rates of comprehensive eye care, compared to Caucasians. InCHARGE is an eye health education program for this population that promotes prevention through the annual, dilated comprehensive eye examination.
Cynthia, Owsley, Gerald, McGwin, Beth T, Stalvey, June, Weston, Karen, Searcey, Christopher A, Girkin   +5 more
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Improving eye care in residential aged care facilities using the Residential Ocular Care (ROC) model: study protocol for a multicentered, prospective, customized, and cluster randomized controlled trial in Australia

Trials, 2018
Background Older adults in residential aged care facilities have unnecessarily high levels of vision impairment (VI) which are largely treatable or correctable.
Edith E. Holloway, Marios Constantinou, Jing Xie, Eva K. Fenwick, Eric A. Finkelstein, Ryan E. K. Man, Michael Coote, Jonathan Jackson, Gwyn Rees, Ecosse L. Lamoureux   +9 more
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